petroleum

Close on heels of the release of Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO)'s quarterly results, Barclays said the results will have a positive impact in the near term. Notwithstanding the potential upside, the firm believes the shares are inexpensive based on its sum-of-the-parts analysis and price/...

Argus has reaffirmed its Buy rating on Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) on recent recovery in crude oil prices and accelerating cost cuts. Analyst Justification Anadarko, which is on Argus' "Focus List," gets major share of earnings from its U.S. onshore business — Wattenberg and...

This week, oil prices made their way below $28 per barrel, and some analysts began to warn that the record lows weren't at rock bottom just yet, according to the Wall Street Journal. Oil's continuing weakness has hammered energy firms over the past year, and judging by the first month of 2016,...

While many articles on this site have endorsed the virtues of investing in major oil companies, such as Chevron (NYSE: CVX), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A), a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal by Daniel Gilbert and Justin Scheck revealed why small cap firms such...

We're charging ahead in the new year -- but let's not forget how the down European market and political uncertainty in the United States caused a considerable amount of hesitancy, if not downright fear, on Wall Street in 2013. Performance was erratic for much of last year, with the market...

Range Resources Corp. (NYSE: RRC) is an independent oil and gas company that is trading at valuations far above those for others in the sector, such as Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK). For investors looking to short a stock, Range Resources Corp. certainly looks...

Gold's exchange traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD), and its oil counterpart, United States Oil (NYSE: USO), should have an inverse trading relationship with each other. When the price of oil is down, gold should rise. That shift generally means economies are weak, so there is less demand...

Due in part to the recent nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, the price of crude oil has fallen. That has pushed the price of major oil companies such as ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) lower in response. There are three main reasons why...

Due to colder-than-normal weather in the United States, the exchange traded fund for natural gas, United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), is up more than 4.5 percent for the last week of trading. And looking ahead in terms of decades, the International Energy Agency's "World Energy Outlook"...

Another major accident involving a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota is drawing attention to the vulnerabilities of transporting oil by rail. Officials are still trying to determine what caused a 90-car train, reportedly carrying 2.7 million gallons of crude oil, to derail and explode...

In previous articles on this site, it was detailed how studies have shown that stocks with low betas and high dividends can turn out to be the most rewarding long term investments. Finding both features in one company that is also a "Dividend Aristocrat" makes for a very attractive equity. With...

More signs the international automotive industry is investing heavily in the future of alternative vehicles. On Tuesday, Mitsubishi Motors (OTC: MMTOF) and the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced plans to share “products, technologies and manufacturing capacity among the automakers.” And...